The Monroe Police Department and the Monroe Fire Department will square off in a kickball game during a community awareness event Aug. 9.

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The Monroe Police Department and the Monroe Fire Department will come together Saturday for a kickball game and a community awareness event.

Kecia Woods, a records clerk with the Monroe Police Department, said the kickball game will "give people in the community the chance to see the police and fire playfully compete against each other." She said, in the past, the agencies played basketball.

"We thought introducing kickball would be something different and fun, and take you back to your childhood," Woods said. ...